My daughter and I both received our passports in todays mail. Our birth certificates also came today in separate envelopes. 3 weeks and a day, and we were told 6-8 weeks. Not bad for government work.

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"As an American, I was not so shocked that Obama was given the Nobel Peace Prize without any accomplishments to his name, but that America gave him the White House based on the same credentials"...Newt Gingrich

The problems we face today are there because the people who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living.

[P.S. - To those who have been wondering if this is a hoax: We understand that it may seem fishy that the State Department chose to publish a notice in the Federal Register that it was proposing a new form, but didn't publish the proposed form itself in the Federal Register. But that was their choice of how to proceed, not ours. We were sent the proposed Form DS-5513 in March, in response to our request, by the person identified in the Federal Register notice as the point of contact from whom it could be obtained: Alexys Garcia, GarciaAA@state.gov, 212-736-9216. We immediately published the form we received from the State Department here on our website. There's more at the links in the sidebar on who we are and how to contact us, as well as links to press reports on our previous work and current projects. You can also check out the other co-signers of the comments we submitted to the State Department. We're for real, and so is this proposal from the State Department. We wish this were a hoax, but it's not.]

I remember initially getting both my civilian and government passport I had to give my birth certificate.

When I renewed in Germany at the American Consulate, I did not have to give up my birth certificate.

I have gone to the Department of State website, looking at the forums; but, since the comments have been closed as of midnight 25th April 2011. We are going to wait and see what comes out of this issue.

I do not have to renew my passport until 2014. It might be a good thing and might not!

One of our newly elected Congressman is having a meeting locally, will ask him on this matter. If they do force the biographical for any issue upon us, I for one will not be able to fill 1/5th of the information, all of my family are not living.